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Brown really is an excellent album, but In Sides is, for my money, their best. The Rolf Harris wobbleboard heartbeat that is The Girl With The Sun In Her Head, the horror movie nursery rhyme that forms the backbone to The Box.
It's Out There Somewhere that's the crowning glory, though. The Hartnolls once claimed that it was supposed to sound like an alien invasion and that's an image that pops into my head every time I hear it, albeit slightly modified. The first half contains all the panic, the War Of The Worlds atmosphere. The bugs have landed and people have gone loopy, absolutely shitting themselves. Then they're beamed onto the aliens' ships and panic becomes real fear. But then, as soon as part two comes in, the ships break free of the Earth's atmosphere and the captives see the stars. The fear's gone, replaced by an awed wonder. The ships speed up and all that's visible through the windows is a 2001-style mishmash of colour and shape. Towards the end it suddenly becomes clear that, rather than being taken for random probe insertions, the humans on the ships have been saved.
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